In “Id”, a man is tormented by love and a twisted creature in his apartment. In “The Basement”, two men confront each other in a damp, filthy basement. In “The Child”, a withered man nurtures a growing creature. In “The Insides”, a man believes something is growing inside him. Finally, in “Boxhead”, an old man is visited by a childhood friend that could be his darkest nightmare.

The victim in each story is forced to confront a fear that is eating them from the inside out. Their choice? Deal with the fear or die with it.

Special Feature includes: Special Interview with the Director and Still Gallery

Directors: Daryush ShokofCast: Anthony Quinn, David Warner, Sonja Kirchberger, Alexandra Stewart, Audra McDonaldArchie (Anthony Quinn) is a rich old man who lives alone with his maid Anya; he is philosophical, funny, and yet "incomplete" as a creature. He longs for affection, the true sensation of becoming "one" with all the creatures on the planet… he finds peace only when his body is energized by love and positive energy from others… he sees the "incomplete" state as an illness and is determined to cure himself. This will require infusing his body with energy.

To do this Archie hires four servants from different parts of the world to fill his four facial openings. Although each servant places an index finger in his ears and nostrils, Archie asks Blade (his longtime friend) and Hilda (his true love) to help complete the process.

The symbolism expresses the true meaning of the film when at the end it reveals that Archie reaches his final wish…"Unity Till The Last Breath."

Selected for Locarno (Competition and Special Event of Closing Night at the Grand Piazza), Toronto, Montreal, Berlin, Kiev, Thessaloniki, Delhi, Cairo and many other international festivals.

"No one can wipe these amazing visuals off my mind... it is a shame for [our] culture that Seven Servants is still nowhere to be seen"
- Internet Movie Database

Directors: Kenta HayashidaCast: Rika Nakamura, Mika Nakamura, Taichi Hirabayashi, Go SetoguchiMinako is diagnosed with a brain tumor and doesn't have long to live. She wants to see her twin sister once again, but there are consequences.

The twins bring out the worst in each other. Together, they are psycho-pyromaniacs and can be very destructive. There's a reason why they've been separated for 13 years, to protect themselves and those around them.

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Drama
NR / 2008 / 72 minutes
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with English subtitles

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A modern day retelling of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". Tom Gregor is a young man who's only ambition is to serve his family at all costs. One day, a strange illness keeps Gregor from going to work...

This sickness last for months and the parents are too old to find employment. His young sister turns to prostitution but that doesn't bring in enough money. And worse of all, Gregor's abusive boss continues to visit even though he has already been fired.

Can Gregor recover from this endless, rotting sickness or is too late?

Ahmad Mahmoud (1931-2002) was a leading Iranian novelist who, over his fifty-year career, published nine short story collections and six novels, including The Native Boy (1972), The Strangers (1972) and The Neighbors (1974).

His writing reflects his political engagement, his concern for the poor and the working class, and his love for his native region of Khuzestan. Mahmoud testifies eloquently to all these concerns in lengthy, and moving, on-camera interviews. This portrait of a well-loved and incredibly talented writer, later overlooked as anti-revolutionary, attests to the extreme difficulties often faced by Iranian writers.

"Dutch
Junkies" is two stories about addiction.
Teenage girls obsessed with chat rooms
and senior citizens on hard drugs.

In "Emoticons", Saskia is tormented at school
and only finds comfort in violent videogames. Sanne writes
poetry about her loneliness on the web. Samantha, a rape
victim, gives other rape victims advice. The three girls
cannot live without chat rooms. The computer is their "daily
food". They have submerged themselves in a virtual
world that has become more important than the ordinary
one.

In "There Goes My Heart",
we enter the first home for elderly drug addicts in
the Netherlands. These four men and three women have
done hard drugs for over 40 years. The home porvides
them with a room and free drugs. Each addict has lost
something significant: the love of their life, contact
with friends and family but mainly, they've lost touch
with their own feelings. This story portrays their
helpless attachment to the illusion that one day their
lives will improve.

Director
Mohamed Al-Daradji
literally risked life
and limb to bring you
the only film about
the Iraq War told from
the Iraqi point of
view. A film Variety
calls "an ambitious
work that's both harrowing
and beautiful". "Ahlaam" is
the tale of three patients
in a Baghdad mental
institution running
through rioting streets
after their hospital
is decimated.

The
filmmaker had a camera in one hand and an AK-47 in
the other. His crew was beaten and lined up to be shot
by the insurgents, interrogated by American Soldiers,
his 14 year old boom man was shot in the leg and someone
from the cast was kidnapped. Somehow, the footage survived
and has evolved into a powerful, bone chilling story
of human beings struggling to make sense of unimaginable
circumstances.

"Apocalypse
Now and Deer Hunter are masterpieces that can be watched
time and time again from the safe position of it being
historical. But Iraq is a tragedy still unfolding,
potentially set to be replicated in neighboring countries,
It's rare that cinema is so relevant and vital, [the
filmmaker] deserves every support in getting this film
to the widest possible audience" -Netribution.

"Harrowing & Beautiful"
- Jay Weissberg, Variety

Offical Selection:ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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SPILT FILM FESTIVAL

Iraq's
official entry in the Foreign Language Film category
at the 79th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS in 2007

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the first time, Chapter Selections, Trailer, Still Gallery, 16x9 Anamorphic
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NR / 2006 / 110 minutes
Country: Iraq
Language: Arabicwith
English subtitles

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Director: Vahid
MousaianCast: Masoud
Rayegan, Hossein Sheydaie

Sia left Iran
years ago illegally and lives in Sweden
with his wife and two children. Realizing
he wants to go back for a visit, he decides
the best place to go is a free port,
an island, which does not require a visa.
But being there does not fully satisfy
his nostalgic longing; his old home is
on the mainland. Danger will confront
him if he returns. He must decide
what is most important: his future or
his past.

“Mousaian's second feature is a
personal breakthrough… in its
depiction of a modern man alone and nearly
suicidal”.-Robert Koehler, Variety

George
Murphy lives in New York City. He just
lost his job and is about to lose his
apartment. He owes months of back rent
and only has one night left before he
is evicted. Running through the breathtaking
labyrinth of pre-9/11 New York City,
George desperately searches for the one
person who can help him."depicts
a New York landscape all the more
recognized for having never before been captured on film
in such dismaying accuracy.” –Amy Taubin, Village Voice

“Determined
grip on the pulse of the city” –Fred Lombardi, Variety“the
gritty experience of Manhattan without an airbrush”–Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

Official Selection:VENICE International Film Festival
TORONTO International Film Festival
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Country: USA
Language: English

Ahmad
Shamlou
(December
12,
1925 – July
24,
2000)
was
a Persian
poet,
writer,
and
journalist.
Shamlou’s
poetry
is
complex,
yet
his
imagery
- which
contributes
significantly
to
the
intensity
of
his
poems
- is
simple.
For
infrastructure
and
impact,
he
uses
a kind
of
everyday
imagery
in
which
personified
oxymoronic
elements
are
spiked
with
an
unreal
combination
of
the
abstract
and
the
concrete
unprecedented
in
Persian
poetry
before
him.
He
is
considered
as
the
founder
of
Persian
blank
poetry.
It
is
said
that
you
cannot
find
a literate
household
in
Iran
where
there
is
none
of
his
poetry
books available.
He
is
an “engaged” poet
in
the
sense
that
his
poetry
addresses
socio-political
issues
of
his
time,
with
a prophetic
emphasize
on
Liberty
and
Human
Rights.

He has also written and translated numerous articles
and books on a spectrum of subjects, from political to
literary. His voluminous Ketab-e Koucheh (The Book of
the Allies) is a major contribution to understanding
Iranian folkloric beliefs and language. In 1984 he was
nominated for the Noble Prize in Literature.

Jim is a shy,
withdrawn loner, pervert and virgin.
Lana is a friendly and outgoing born
again Christian who has renounced her
promiscuous drug filled past. They have
never met until they step into an elevator
together one day. The elevator gets stuck
between floors, and they start to get
to know each other. A building maintenance
man assures them over the elevator's
emergency intercom that a repairman is
on the way. Hours, days, weeks, and months
pass, and no repairmen arrive. Jim and
Lana spend their days screaming into
the intercom trying to get the maintenance
guy to answer again. He doesn't.

Starvation
is not a problem, as Lana entered the elevator with
a bag full of groceries, which is mysteriously found
to be filled with fresh food every morning. After enough
time passes, Jim gives up hope of escape and resigns
himself to building a new life in the elevator with Lana,
who he sees as his first girlfriend. Lana on the other
hand desperately wants to escape, and clings to her faith
in God to provide them with an opening of the elevator
doors. Eventually, a reluctant and desperate romance
begins--

Clearly
inspired by early Lynch, Buñuel, Cronenberg, and
even the recent work of James Fotopoulos. And if you know
anything at all about any of these filmmakers you'll rightly
conclude that Elevator Movie firmly belongs under
that prickliest of classifications:Not For Everyone. -FILM THREAT

September
11, 2001. Salt Lake
City, Utah. A messianic
group called "The
Open Mind Forum" awaits
the implementation
of NESARA, a
secret law 100 years
in the making. Once
implemented, NESARA
will abolish the IRS,
remove George W.Bush
from office, expose
Bush as a reptilian
alien, and install
a UFO-flying Jesus
as America's new leader.

NESARA
was already delayed as a result of 9/11. If Bush declares
war with Iraq, there's no telling how much further
this crucial law will be denied. "The Open Mind
Forum" must
channel all their faith and prayers toward the desperate
hope that their UFO allies will intervene this war, thereby
establishing NESARA and delivering us peace and harmony
on Earth.

Peter
is hired to infiltrate the seedy, psychosexual London
S&M scene. He must gather evidence of "physical
assaults" to prosecute and shut the down this sexual
hell. Inevitably, Peter goes too deep and falls for the
irresistible Mistress Tanya Cheex. Will he accomplish
his mission or be lured into this modern day Pompeii? The
world's first feature film set in the fetish club scene,
released in 1997 to both controversy and acclaim, 'P2TP'
soon reached "cult favorite" status (The Boston Phoenix)---
and was the last film of the twentieth century to be
banned in Ireland (and other countries)!

Forget the hanging chads and butterfly ballots. The
Presidential 2000 election is still a mystery to most
Americans. What actually happened with the 180,000 uncounted
Florida votes that would have elected Vice President
Al Gore? And who was responsible for the injustice? Was
it the disorganized media or the irresponsible state
of Florida?

"Recount Democracy" investigates
charges of disenfranchisement, racial exclusion, voting
rights violations and the subverting of a recount in
the most contested and controversial election in U.S.
history. Nearly a decade later, the story every American
must know is told in unflinching detail.

Villagers
proudly display the scalps and fingers of their defeated
enemies. Lynched thieves hang from lampposts. The bodies
of traitors are dragged through the streets. "We
killed these people and sent them to God," states one
man proudly. In Pakistan, "The Taliban" has established
an administration with their own laws.

This
is documentary about how a "Taliban" is
born, trained and recruited. What type of person becomes
a "Taliban", and why. In Pakistan, "Taliban" means "student".
Like students anywhere else in the world, there are many--
and they are ready to be taught a way of life until death.

Sergeant
Alvarez has only four weeks to train a group of men into
soldiers. But the typical training methods do not work
with these recruits. That's because the recruits are Iraqis.
They don't speak a word of English. They don't understand
commands or swear words. They refuse to shave their mustaches,
let alone their entire heads. Meanwhile, outside the base,
the insurgency is raging.

How do American soldiers mold Iraqi Soldiers? How do
they train Iraqis to storm an insurgent stronghold? This
fascinating documentary follows the making of an army,
an Iraqi Army that fights for America, a key to America's
success during this endless war. This story asks, can
an Iraqi Army be built to support America?